NP. chris Hedges new book, October, Death of the Liberal class, Nation Books

[alice wellintown]

All true.  But do we need a statement of the obvious? And, unlike
several of the more insightful and subtle critics he quotes, from
Plato to Postman, Hedges has tossed out the baby and the bathtub and
the kitchen sink in the bargain.   The future of liberal and
democratic tempering of th excesses of capitalism or power elite
brasil or india or china, is labor. Tank Man Lives! Lula deseves a
Nobel. India? A fine balance (did you read this one)?

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hedges has become more trenchant and hard-hitting with each book. He tells the
> Huffington Post: "The pillars of the liberal establishment--the liberal
> religious institutions, the press, the arts, the universities, labor and the
> Democratic Party--have become morally and intellectually bankrupt. The
> traditional role of the liberal class is to work as a kind of safety valve to
> make incremental and piecemeal reform possible and to scale back the worst
> excesses of capitalism. The liberal class, following decades of permanent war,
> where we were made afraid of communists and later Islamic terrorists, allowed
> radicals to be silenced and banished. This left a liberal class behind that sees
> national security as its highest priority and permits witch hunts--as well as
> corporate money--to push aside all within its ranks deemed "political." The
> liberal class today has no real function within the corporate state. The death
> of the liberal class is catastrophic for it ensures no check on the power elite
> and means that anger and change are expressed through political groups and
> mechanisms that are fundamentally anti-democratic."
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